Habits

Patterns in how you trade after wins and losses, straight from your fills.

The Habits tab looks at what happened just before each trade and how that trade turned out. It needs nothing written down — it works from your fills on the first import.

What it looks at

• How your next trade does after a win, and after a loss.
• Your first trade of the session compared with later ones.
• Getting back in quickly after a loss.
• How you trade during a losing run, and whether your size creeps up when you’re down.

Why does Habits sometimes say nothing?

Crux only points out a habit when there are enough trades on both sides to be fair — at least 8 — and the difference is big enough to matter for how you trade. Until then it stays quiet rather than guessing. A steady trader is told they’re steady.

Each finding is a plain sentence with the numbers in it, so you can check it against your own trades. Habits is part of the Edge and Elite plans.

How does Crux know what came before a trade?

From the clock, not the order of the rows. A trade only counts as “after a loss” if that loss had actually closed before this trade opened. A position still running when you opened the next one couldn’t have influenced it, so it doesn’t count. Trades opened while another was still open are kept apart from the true first trade of a session, because mixing them made the “first trade” row look far better or worse than it was.

What does a finding look like?

A sentence with the numbers in it, worst first. For example: “After a loss you average −$62 on your next trade, against +$41 otherwise (14 and 31 trades).” Every figure can be checked against your own trade list. The numbers in that sentence are illustrative; yours come from your fills.

How big must a difference be?

Big enough to matter: at least a tenth of your average trade’s P&L, wins and losses counted alike, on top of the minimum of 8 trades on each side. A gap smaller than that is noise, and naming it as a habit would be accusing you of something your own numbers don’t support.

Examples of what it can say

• After a loss: your next trade after a loss averages −$48, against +$35 after a win.
• First trade: your first trade of the session averages +$90; your fourth and later average −$22.
• Quick re-entry: trades opened soon after a loss average −$61.
• Size creep: during a losing run, your size goes up.

Every number in those lines is illustrative. Yours come with the trade counts behind them, so you can see whether a finding rests on 9 trades or 90.